Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious …
Quote for Today: Max Ehrmann
To be without desire is to be content. But contentment is not happiness. And in contentment there is no progress. Happiness is to desire something, to work for it, and …
Quote for Today: Christina Baker Kline
“You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it’ll become too small.” “Then what?” I ask. “Well, then you’ll have to …
Quote for Today: Shirley Jackson
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, …
Quote for Today: Alexander Lowen
With each breath a wave can be seen to ascend and descend through the body. The inspiratory wave begins deep in the abdomen with a backward movement of the …
Quote for Today: Wally Lamb
“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like …
Quote for Today: Philip Roth
I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I’m not a fantasist. I bounce up and …
Quote for Today: Alice Munro
A story is not like a road to follow … it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason — its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it …
Quote for Today: Iimani David
Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, …